John Ross and the Cherokee Indians

John Ross and the Cherokee Indians
Title John Ross and the Cherokee Indians PDF eBook
Author Rachel Caroline Eaton
Publisher
Pages 234
Release 1914
Genre Cherokee Indians
ISBN

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Jacksonland

Jacksonland
Title Jacksonland PDF eBook
Author Steve Inskeep
Publisher Penguin
Pages 450
Release 2016-05-17
Genre History
ISBN 014310831X

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“The story of the Cherokee removal has been told many times, but never before has a single book given us such a sense of how it happened and what it meant, not only for Indians, but also for the future and soul of America.” —The Washington Post Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling democracy. One man we recognize: Andrew Jackson—war hero, populist, and exemplar of the expanding South—whose first major initiative as president instigated the massive expulsion of Native Americans known as the Trail of Tears. The other is a half-forgotten figure: John Ross—a mixed-race Cherokee politician and diplomat—who used the United States’ own legal system and democratic ideals to oppose Jackson. Representing one of the Five Civilized Tribes who had adopted the ways of white settlers, Ross championed the tribes’ cause all the way to the Supreme Court, gaining allies like Senator Henry Clay, Chief Justice John Marshall, and even Davy Crockett. Ross and his allies made their case in the media, committed civil disobedience, and benefited from the first mass political action by American women. Their struggle contained ominous overtures of later events like the Civil War and defined the political culture for much that followed. Jacksonland is the work of renowned journalist Steve Inskeep, cohost of NPR’s Morning Edition, who offers a heart-stopping narrative masterpiece, a tragedy of American history that feels ripped from the headlines in its immediacy, drama, and relevance to our lives. Jacksonland is the story of America at a moment of transition, when the fate of states and nations was decided by the actions of two heroic yet tragically opposed men.

Toward the Setting Sun

Toward the Setting Sun
Title Toward the Setting Sun PDF eBook
Author Brian Hicks
Publisher Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Pages 573
Release 2011-01-04
Genre History
ISBN 0802195997

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“Richly detailed and well-researched,” this story of one Native American chief’s resistance to American expansionism “unfolds like a political thriller” (Publishers Weekly). Toward the Setting Sun chronicles one of the most significant but least explored periods in American history—the nineteenth century forced removal of Native Americans from their lands—through the story of Chief John Ross, who came to be known as the Cherokee Moses. Son of a Scottish trader and a quarter-Cherokee woman, Ross was educated in white schools and was only one-eighth Indian by blood. But as Cherokee chief in the mid-nineteenth century, he would guide the tribe through its most turbulent period. The Cherokees’ plight lay at the epicenter of nearly all the key issues facing America at the time: western expansion, states’ rights, judicial power, and racial discrimination. Clashes between Ross and President Andrew Jackson raged from battlefields and meeting houses to the White House and Supreme Court. As whites settled illegally on the Nation’s land, the chief steadfastly refused to sign a removal treaty. But when a group of renegade Cherokees betrayed their chief and negotiated their own agreement, Ross was forced to lead his people west. In one of America’s great tragedies, thousands died during the Cherokees’ migration on the Trail of Tears. “Powerful and engaging . . . By focusing on the Ross family, Hicks brings narrative energy and original insight to a grim and important chapter of American life.” —Jon Meacham

Cherokee Removal

Cherokee Removal
Title Cherokee Removal PDF eBook
Author William L. Anderson
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Pages 177
Release 1992-06-01
Genre History
ISBN 082031482X

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Includes bibliographical references. Includes index.

Cherokee Tragedy

Cherokee Tragedy
Title Cherokee Tragedy PDF eBook
Author Thurman Wilkins
Publisher University of Oklahoma Press
Pages 434
Release 1989-07-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780806121888

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Chronicles the rise of the Cherokee Nation and its rapid decline, focusing on the Ridge-Watie family and their experiences during the Cherokee removal.

John Ross and the Cherokee Indians

John Ross and the Cherokee Indians
Title John Ross and the Cherokee Indians PDF eBook
Author Rachel Caroline Eaton
Publisher
Pages 276
Release 1914
Genre Cherokee Indians
ISBN

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The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears
Title The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears PDF eBook
Author Theda Perdue
Publisher Penguin
Pages 220
Release 2007-07-05
Genre History
ISBN 1101202343

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Today, a fraction of the Cherokee people remains in their traditional homeland in the southern Appalachians. Most Cherokees were forcibly relocated to eastern Oklahoma in the early nineteenth century. In 1830 the U.S. government shifted its policy from one of trying to assimilate American Indians to one of relocating them and proceeded to drive seventeen thousand Cherokee people west of the Mississippi. The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears recounts this moment in American history and considers its impact on the Cherokee, on U.S.-Indian relations, and on contemporary society. Guggenheim Fellowship-winning historian Theda Perdue and coauthor Michael D. Green explain the various and sometimes competing interests that resulted in the Cherokee?s expulsion, follow the exiles along the Trail of Tears, and chronicle their difficult years in the West after removal.